Word: treating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue of purchasing new stocks, and what ethical considerations Harvard should take into account. The new open letter does, however, give a disturbing implicit answer that morality has no place in Harvard's business dealings. The letter notes that because other countries are evil, it would be inconsistent to treat South Africa differently than perhaps Guatemala, EI Salvador, or the Soviet Union. But this is actually inconsistent with Bok's earlier statements and actions...
...immediate, desperate question for millions of Americans is neither why nor how a person becomes an alcoholic, but how to treat the affliction. The first step, writes Vaillant, is recognizing that alcoholism is "neither a psychological symptom nor some vague unnamed metabolic riddle waiting to be deciphered." It is not a sin, but a progressive disease that may take years to acquire, and from which it may take years to recover. Writes Vaillant: "The task is to convince the patient not that he or she is an alcoholic, but that he or she is a decent person...
...director of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Service at Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic in New York City. Explains Dr. Blume of the N.C.A., who is a psychiatrist: "Psychiatrists have been trained that alcoholism is a problem which comes from early-childhood experiences, but aren't taught how to treat alcoholics. They go after these 'underlying causes,' treatment doesn't work, the alcoholic gets worse and the psychiatrist decides that the disease is intractable...
...between somatizers and doctors may have some validity but is "skeptical that the doctor is fearful for the same reason that the patient is." Arthur Barsky, a psychiatrist at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, believes Ford's views are difficult to substantiate. Says he: "The way you treat somebody has a lot to do with the way you think about yourself. That phenomenon is there. Beyond that, it's inference...
...blast had laid open a shoulder, an arm and a leg. The arm was spouting blood from a main artery. Johnson stuck his fingers in the holes to slow the hemorrhaging long enough for him to get a pressure bandage in place. Stop the bleeding, treat' em for shock, get 'em to a chopper. It wasn't pretty, and it wasn't textbook medicine, but Reid was going to make...